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  ExxonMobil Plans Move To Texas, Citing Biz-Friendly Milieu

  By Spencer Brewer

  ExxonMobil Corp. is the latest company to eye Texas as its new legal home, telling shareholders Tuesday that the...(read more)

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  PlayStation Users Say Sony Made Them 'Captives' In £5B Trial

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  Sony has a "total grip" on the digital PlayStation market, lawyers representing millions of gamers said Tuesday ...(read more)

• Alex Spiro Says Twitter Atty 'Misremembering' Offer To Settle

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Elon Musk attorney Alex Spiro testified before a California federal jury Tuesday that a lead Twitter lawyer who said Spiro tried to renegotiate Musk's $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform was "misremembering," saying Twitter's counsel offered the discount and asked for legal waivers over the company's bot claims.

• Dems Confront Roberts At Wide-Ranging Judiciary Gathering

  By Jeff Overley

  The federal judiciary's top administrator voiced "serious and urgent concerns" Tuesday regarding threats of retribution against judges, a warning that coincided with a judicial gathering where Democrats discussed security fears and controversial U.S. Supreme Court rulings.

• Prosecutor Resigns, Judge Shows Slide Deck On AI Errors

  By Abigail Harrison

  A federal prosecutor told a North Carolina federal court Tuesday that he was separating from the office after admitting in open court to using artificial intelligence to help draft a response brief, what he called "the worst decision I've ever made in my 30-year career."

• DOJ Unveils Superseding Policy For Corporate Criminal Cases

  By Sarah Jarvis

  The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday released its first-ever, department-wide, corporate enforcement policy for criminal matters, outlining how it will decline to prosecute companies that voluntarily disclose misconduct, cooperate with investigators and remediate wrongdoing.

• Judiciary Approves Supreme Court Public Defender Office

  By Katie Buehler

  The federal judiciary approved a new office Tuesday aimed at improving the quality of representation for indigent defendants with cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. 

• Fla. Defends Social Media Teen Ban As Content-Neutral

  By Carolina Bolado

  Florida defended its restrictions on social media for children before the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday, arguing that the law is content-neutral and does not violate the First Amendment, and urged the appeals court to undo an injunction blocking its enforcement.

• Judge Blocks Perplexity AI Assistant From Amazon Shopping

  By Elliot Weld

  A California federal judge has granted Amazon's request for a temporary injunction that could block Perplexity AI Inc. from using its artificial intelligence assistant Comet to purchase things on the retail site, an order that Perplexity has already appealed.

• Texas Jury Awards $48M In Oil Drilling Patent Case

  By Elliot Weld

  A Texas federal jury has awarded Impulse Downhole Solutions Ltd. nearly $48 million in damages against a similarly named company that it said had infringed oil drilling patents.

• 11th Circ. Torn On Ga.'s Social Media Restrictions For Children

  By Chart Riggall

  An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared conflicted Tuesday over a Georgia law that placed new restrictions on children's use of social media, suggesting that some provisions were "clearly constitutional" while others likely won't clear First Amendment scrutiny.

• Wisconsin Judges Decline To Extend Interim US Atty's Term

  By Courtney Bublé

  A majority of judges in the Eastern District of Wisconsin have declined to extend the tenure of interim U.S. Attorney Brad Schimel, according to an announcement Tuesday.

• DLA Piper Can't Rep Itself At Bias Trial, Fired Atty Says

  By Pete Brush

  DLA Piper should not be permitted to represent itself at trial in a pregnancy discrimination case brought by a senior associate who was fired in 2022, lawyers for the plaintiff told a Manhattan federal judge.

• Atkins Promises End To 'Duplicative' SEC-CFTC Enforcement

  By Jessica Corso

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is in the process of updating its protocols for coordinating enforcement efforts with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with an eye toward ending "duplicative enforcement actions," SEC Chair Paul Atkins said Tuesday.